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7/2/2013 7:22AM

Snowden Awaits Response to Asylum Requests

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. government contractor holed up in the transit zone of Moscow’s airport, has had slow responses to his requests to more than 20 countries for asylum. Bruce Orwall looks at the possibilities for Mr. Snowden.

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I ... the the ... the US ... Snowden was still weak in the Saudis said ... oh Moscow's ... said Mikhail ... Apple has said asylum that's the only twenty countries ... according to wiki leaks ... the solo has been looking at the responses the whistleblower has been getting up ... this post was posted to the Fed will focus on what happened there ... well Ecuador for seem like a natural place for him to try to go since ... Ecuador is already ... granted asylum to join us time to wiki leaks who has been ... sort of helping Snowden with the situation ... and you know Snowden went to Moscow from Hong Kong and actually did try with plans to try to get the Ecuador from there ... of but you got stock in Moscow ... unexpectedly and ... the Ecuadorian from a few days to ... consider things now for a telephone call from the vice president the United States ... over the weekend present her as that back a little bit ... from that concert made it clear that ... Snowden was on his own the moment ... this is quitting state as well that is also hopes to ... cross sell with the is already ... um but God is actually drawn ... well the Russians that you know me a very clear from Proton down from the start that they were ... really hopeful that he wishes to move on from there and go anywhere but our boss got the ... Snowden still hasn't ... healed by their account ... stepped onto Russian soil is in this international trade has attracted sound ... and now I'm in the last day or so ... Putin is rated asset that still going to be dropped his ... political activism against the U S which does have a non starter if ... your ... stock in trade as political activism ... involving the U S secrets but that's the fact D with with with the requests what ... else to the US is putting a Tuesday just as suggested that the goal of the country's health system is accepted ... but that is off the ball so ... it can devote as possible this takes a lot more ... imagine ... what a battery old man without a country Sanaa Rio developing here in the sense that ... he truly ... he truly is to worries that in this blizzard of ... um ... of asylum requests about time out from Snowden to all these twenty other countries ... which were slowly getting responses from ... the various countries this morning but ... I've operators are standing by for the responses have not been very fast or enthusiastic so far ... this it was the executive in the light to the aid of that so if you will lease is up ... on this list of said ... they see what ... a little bit too too too is basically a get out first and then apply in the Stock embossed with the gospel yet he stuck to India for example has really came out with with that that sort of ... responses well Spain that has done the same ... out there telling they're saying they can't consider an asylum requests until he's on there ... so it's it serves classic catch twenty two percent a decade ... he can't I'm ... half is for Quest considered until he gets some place that you can go ... insisting that it is also asked the Libya and that this will Emminger any chances that these countries listed on the city of recruits of us ... are likely to accept that they might they might be I'm ... he might have better prospects in there but I think that he still faces ... the same challenge of getting someplace where is ... the ... word is um ... where were his list was a deacon to be ... considered and that is the real problem for them all ... there's no travel documents is no way to get her ... to go ... the startups